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One of my most extensive class design projects, a marble run toy. Designed entirely in Solidworks 2024. This was a group project, I worked with a classmate who designed the other half of the parts.
One of the many parts I designed. This is the tower base, designed to both hold the other parts and capture marbles at the end of the run.
I designed most of the bridge pieces. Each is three pieces, meant to be glued together.
It was not only a CAD project, we were required to have a fully dimensioned technical drawing for each part.
This project was fantastic practice.
The final project of that same class was to create drawings of and design compatible parts for a small air-operated gas piston.
Some parts we were simply given a written description (including tolerances) and asked to draw.
Some parts we had full creative control over, one of which being the flywheel. I am particularly proud of mine.
ANSYS was another software I had the pleasure of learning for basic design validation.
We designed some basic systems, such as cantilever beams and trusses, and applied different forces to the static systems to see how they respond.
One of our assignments was to design a hangar capable of supporting a fixed weight truss, secured with bolts.
We applied the given force,
... and used the results for a structural optimization, which produces a model that can be heavily referenced for another design iteration.
For family, this is one of a few different holders I designed for my father's clinic.
This one was designed to hold the temperature guns used to check people's temperatures during the covid pandemic. The holders still sit empty on the walls, a stark reminder of that chaotic time.
Each room in the clinic has a wireless keyboard and mouse for controlling each room's TV computer. This keyboard holder was designed for standard aluminum dowel rods you could purchase from Amazon.
These holders allow the keyboard and mouse to be stored under the TV in an aesthetic way, without taking valuable table space.
Regarding more personal projects, this is a new, custom printhead for one of my 3d printers.
This was the fourth iteration of a hotend cover designed to mount my rebuilt extruder system.
As a more fun-oriented project, I designed this collapsible dice tower and storage box, designed for small, standard magnets.
I have printed a few variations of it, the best ones becoming gifts for friends of mine. This one specifically has seen much use over the last year. It is able to collapse down into a box, easily slid into a bag.
So far, my most extensive and complicated single CAD project has been a replacement center console for my 2005 honda accord.
It was meant to be a cheaper alternative than the increasingly rare and expensive OEM consoles, and while it was, it could benefit from another "beautification" iteraton. Nothing is ever as permanent as a temporary solution, after all.
Beyond basic object design, I have found it to be incredibly useful for assembly projects as well. This is an example of me using Fusion360 as a design tool for a simulator built primarily out of two broken-down pallets. The CAD was used to maximize the pallets, minimizing the amount of supplementary wood we had to purchase. This simulator still lives in the VR lab on the university campus, and sees regular use from the BYU Racing team.